Apps for capturing language variation and change in German-speaking Europe: Opportunities, challenges, findings, and future directions
Apps for capturing language variation and change in German-speaking Europe: Opportunities, challenges, findings, and future directions
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用于捕捉欧洲德语区语言变化和变化的应用程序：机遇、挑战、发现和未来方向
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2021
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A. Leemann
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智能手机应用程序无处不在：2018年，仅在德国，79%的人口拥有智能手机。几乎每个人都在这个队列总是随身携带一个记录设备和一个记事本（即，屏幕），语言学家通常在该领域使用的两个基本工具。在本文中，我们讨论了语言学家如何利用这种普遍存在的语言工具来捕捉语言的变异和变化，并通过为德语欧洲开发的应用程序进行了说明。我们介绍了四个应用程序（Dialäkt Äpp，Voice Äpp，Grüezi Moin Servus和Deutschklang），它们的开发目的是（a）与公众互动，（B）收集语言数据。我们讨论机会（例如，所述设备的多模态），以及挑战（例如，维护、更新和其中所涉及的费用）。最后，我们提出了新的研究结果，已经出现了从这个新的模式和使用智能手机应用程序来收集语言数据的未来方向和发展进行推测。
Abstract Smartphone apps are ubiquitous: in 2018 in Germany alone, 79% of the population owned a smartphone. Virtually everyone in this cohort always carries with them a recording device and a notepad (i.e., a screen), two essential tools that linguists typically use in the field. In the present contribution we discuss how linguists can harness this ubiquity of linguistic tools in the population to capture language variation and change, illustrated through apps that were developed for German-speaking Europe. We present four apps (Dialäkt Äpp, Voice Äpp, Grüezi Moin Servus, and Deutschklang) that were developed to (a) engage with the public and (b) to collect linguistic data. We discuss opportunities (e.g., the multimodality of said devices), as well as challenges (e.g., maintenance, updating and the costs involved therein). Finally, we present new findings that have emerged from working with this new paradigm and speculate about future directions and developments in using smartphone apps to collect linguistic data.